If he was worth so much to the Yankees as a true Yankee along the likes of Williams or Jeter or whomever else, then the Yankees should have paid him what he could get on the market to make it so. They did not, and that's on no one but Cashman and the Yankees front office.

No 31 year old is worth 240 million for 10 years unless they are on steroids. He'll fizzle out and the Mariners wil become a laughing stock again while the Yankees thrive again. I can see why he would take the money but again someday I feel he will regret it. I would think no money in the world can match the experiance of walking back into Yankee stadium and getting a standing ovation when your 70 years old. He'll never experiance this.

Hate to be a stickler, but Paul Konerko was with both the Dodgers and Reds before he was traded to the White Sox after the 1998 season(for the immortal Mike Cameron.)No offense, just had to point that out.

No 31 year old is worth 240 million for 10 years unless they are on steroids. He'll fizzle out and the Mariners wil become a laughing stock again while the Yankees thrive again. I can see why he would take the money but again someday I feel he will regret it. I would think no money in the world can match the experiance of walking back into Yankee stadium and getting a standing ovation when your 70 years old. He'll never experiance this.

This could be as big a mistake as Pujols and Hamilton getting ungodly contracts from the Halos.Just my opinion.

Hate to be a stickler, but Paul Konerko was with both the Dodgers and Reds before he was traded to the White Sox after the 1998 season(for the immortal Mike Cameron.) No offense, just had to point that out.

I would think no money in the world can match the experiance of walking back into Yankee stadium and getting a standing ovation when your 70 years old. He'll never experiance this.

240 million sure would. And again...I'm sure he doesn't really care about experiencing that. A standing ovation doesn't pay for anything. You overestimate the importance of the "Yankee Mystique" these days.

240 million sure would. And again...I'm sure he doesn't really care about experiencing that. A standing ovation doesn't pay for anything. You overestimate the importance of the "Yankee Mystique" these days.

To you and me 240 million would mean everything but this guy probably already has close to a half a billion dollars. I think Jeter, Rivera, Posada and millions of Yankee fans will disagree about this mystique thing too. I'm not a Yankee fan but I gotta admit I do admire their history and as big of jerks as the fans are they are true baseball fans.